Goblin False-Flag: echo

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me echo 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past echo rather than at it, on the theory that echo reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Echoes of matrix in the Goblin Archive

matrix pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of grid

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on grid. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted echo for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.